Saturday, October 31, 2026

Tag: AI

AI chatbots can be a valuable health resource for older adults...

AI can help you navigate health information, but evaluating the credibility and quality of responses is key.

“Hyperscale”: Paris Marx on Excess of Big Tech Data Empires &...

Tech journalist Paris Marx says AI companies have dropped climate targets and are building on-site gas plants to power data centers, and he criticizes Sen. Bernie Sanders's AI bill.

AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run...

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign aimed at persuading Americans to manage their healthcare and medical records on apps.

Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a...

AI companies are calling for a coordinated pause to progress – but making it working, and keeping AI safe, won’t be easy.

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on...

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.

“Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies

A new book traces how Venezuelans, squeezed by hyperinflation, came to power AI systems for as little as 50 cents an hour under an algorithm acting as manager.

Israel and the United States are merging their military. Here’s why.

"From aid to partnership," the U.S. and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide.

Whitmer’s data center push isn’t just bad for Michigan—it’s bad for...

Michiganders are "fighting like hell" because they understand exactly what is at stake.

Advocacy groups call Meta AI Image generation feature an invasion of...

Advocacy groups like Public Citizen have condemned the rollout as an egregious invasion of privacy, criticizing Meta for quietly defaulting users into the system without explicit, affirmative consent.

America’s AI war has no civilian stop rule

The Pentagon is speeding up the path from data to strike without a rule requiring a pause, independent audit, and public accounting after grave civilian harm.

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Protesters carry Palestinian flags and signs at a demonstration in Berlin.

Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists

“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Voters stand at voting stations in a polling place.

In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
The U.S. Capitol building with its dome in Washington.

515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds

Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.
The entrance of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington.

McMahon plans $43,279 in office furniture as Education Dept shrinks

Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.
Blue entrance of the Karnes County Civil Detention Center with metal benches outside

ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018

The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.